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1929. N. STRAUSSLER v 36,677

COIN RECEPTACLE, CHANGE GIVING MACHINE, AND THE LIKE Filed Nov. 1928 tllmllllllllllllllmilllllll Patented Nov. 19, 1929 ATENT OFFICE.

NICHOLAS STR-AUSSLER, OF LONDON, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR TO ARTHUR M ARSTON BILLINGTON, OF HAYES, MIDDLESEX, ENGLAND COIN RECEIETACLE, CHANGE-GIVING MACHINE, AND THE LIKE Application filed November 9, 1928, Serial No. 318,274, and in Great Britain November 2, 1927.

This invention relates to coin receptacles, change-giving machines, and the like devices for the storage in magazines and delivery therefrom 01 small articles such as coins, discs or tablets of such a nature that they can be stacked and individually ejected at will by hand operated mechanisms.

According to the invention a pivoted lever adapted to be depressed by the operator against the resistance of a spring or sprmgs is linked to one end of a second lever, for

example a bell-crank lever, the other end of which second lever operatively engages a suitably guide-d thin blade or striker adapted to reciprocate in a magazine so as to push out consecutively coins or other small objects fed into the magazine, for example by gravity, the arrangement being such that the operative and return strokes of the blade are very rapidly accomplished.

In order that the said invention may be clearly understood and readily carried into effect, the same will now be described more fully with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents in side elevation one of the units of a change giving mechanism exemplifying this invention.

Figure 2 is a front elevation, and

Figure 3 a plan oi the device represented in Figure 1.

Figure t represents the pusher lever and blade detached.

A indicates a base plate on which are secured two vertical frames or side walls B, B, each frame being provided with lugs C for the passage of screws by which the said walls are held in position on the base plate, and studs D, D, E, F connect the two walls together. The main portions of these side walls are approximately triangular in shape with curved extensions G, G, which together form an incomplete cylinder, hereinafter briefly termed the cylinder. On the stud D is pivoted the operating lever H,

which for the sake of steadiness may be forked to work outside the walls B, B, its forks being joined by crossbars J, K and expanded at the free end to hold a press button M. Lugs n a on the lever H are connected by springs N, N in tension to lugs 6 b on the side walls, these springs tending to keep the lever H. in its highest position. A lever P is pivoted on the stud E and is slotted at 70 to embrace the upper crossbar J of the operatinglever; the downwardly directed arm p of this lever is operatively connected with a thin and mainly flat blade R working on the base plate, this blade It having at its rear end a raised por'- tion i widened to form two lugs 0, r whereby it is guided in slots b in the side walls while it is reciprocating with the operating lever. An annular guide S is secured within the cylinder to prevent the said blade E from risingofi the base plate. The sides of the cylinder are cut away or slotted at 9 g to permit the exit of a coin from the cylinder when the blade R is actuated by the rocking of the lever H caused by the depression of the button M. The stud F acts as a stop to'limit the return stroke of'the lever P which is caused by the contraction of the stprings N, N upon release of the press but A number of coins being stacked within the cylinder, on the button M being depressed and released, the blade or striker R quickly throws out the bottom coin and retires from under the superimposed coins, which then" descend by gravity. I This action can be repeated so long as there are any coins in the cylinder. 1

When used for giving change, several cylinders may be secured on a single base plate, say of aluminium, eachcylinder being marked to indicate a coin of a certain value and being of suitable dimensions to accommodate a number of coins of the value indicated Assuming for example that a customer ten- 'ders a ten shilling note in payment for a purchase of a value of two shillings, the operator can press the buttonmarked 2/ four times to give eight shillings change, or can instead give three half-crowns and aTl Sixpence to make up the same amount by operating the appropriate keys.

A difficulty hitherto experienced in the use of machines for giving change has been that some coins were thinner than others of the same denomination through use, so that two thin coins might be delivered at one stroke of the key; but this difiiculty is overcome by the present invention, because even if the 5 slot in the cylinder is wide enough to allow two thin coins to pass out together, the striker will only eject one at each forward stroke. Furthermore, if a coin of the wrong size should be inadvertently placed in one of the cylinders, the working of the device would not be impeded, because owing to the slot extending over 180 degrees of the circumference of the cylinder, any coin that will pass into the cylinder can be ejected in the normal manner.

The side walls and the two levers can be stamped out of sheet metal, or manufactured in any other convenient manner.

What I claim is 0 1. A device of the kind described comprising a pairrof side walls formed at one end to provide. a magazine for articles such as coins, a lever pivotally mounted on said walls to the rear of said magazine, a second lever of bell crank form pivotally mounted at its cranked portion on said walls at the rear and above the pivot of said first mentioned lever, said walls being so formed as to provide a slot to permit removal of articles from said magazine, and a thin blade capable of being moved into and out of said slot, said blade being linked to one arm of said second mentioned lever and the other arm of said second lever being linked directly to said first men- '35 tioned lever.

2. A'device of the kind described comprising a magazine for articles, a pair of spaced side walls formed at one end to provide said magazine, a forked lever pivotally mounted 40 at one end upon said walls, a finger piece at the other end ofsaid lever, said walls being so formed as to provide a slot to permit removal oil-articles from said magazine, a thin blade guided in said walls for reciprocable movement into and out of said slot for ejecting articles from said magazine, a second lever ofbell crank, form having a short arm and a long arm pivotally mounted at its cranked portion upon said walls, said first 5 mentioned lever being linked directly to the short armof said second mentioned lever, and the longer arm of said second mentioned lever being linked directly to the thin blade whereby rocking of said first mentioned lever about its pivot, causes rapid reciprocable movement of said blade.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this s ecification.

NI HOLAS STRAUSSLER. 

